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These dress-code offenders wear baggy pants, du-rags, flash their \ "bling bling\" like gold chains, and \ "decorative orthodontic appliances\" like gold teeth, and tattoos, bringing too much of black urban ghetto life to an elite college that fashions itself as the paragon of black manhood.

Inside, the vehicle is the ultimate in bling-chic, with electric curtains, massaging seats, plasma TVs, racks for glasses, decanters and – most importantly of all – a safe in which real estate or coal mining barons can store the sky-scraping piles of banknotes that drive their ­businesses.

Momon told jurors he initially tried to cover his tracks—burning between $30,000 and $60,000 in cash in a "turkey fryer" in his suburban Washington home, and filing down the engravings on jewelry he called "bling," that he said he tossed into the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers.

After X3 & Wolvie, when I think of Hugh Jackman & FOX, I think of them as the parents who have iPhones & use the word bling bling around their kids trying to impress them with their so called "acute" knowledge of whats hip.. only inciting absolute embarrassment at the mere attempt instead.

I think it's a useful word. I saw a reference to 'pirate bling' in the window a costume shop the other day and I immediately knew what they were talking about. Much more so than if they had written 'pirate accessories'.

I used to use it in reference to classic video games and the sounds they made, before the word took on the current definition. Actually I used the phrase bling bling, which was just a weird coincidence I guess.

Also, I first mistyped "reference" as "reverence," which is a sad but true Freudian slip. :-P